Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

In other Senior Center News, with uncertainty about possible federal budget cuts to Social Security and Medicaid, staff at ...

A new law permits the D.C. Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people.

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

The job of a poet laureate is to engage Illinoisans in poetry, with each poet laureate given a small stipend to enact that ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

Born Feb. 20, 1963, in Leeds, Charles Barkley graduated from Leeds High School in 1981. Barkley was a standout at Auburn University and in the NBA. He earned 11 NBA All-Star games, was All-Star MVP in ...